Recently, the astronomical community has welcomed an exciting discovery: water vapor has been detected in the atmospheres of ...

Though NGC 7456 looks like a modest spiral galaxy, new Hubble and XMM-Newton observations reveal a bustling system with ...

In the search for habitable exoplanets, atmospheric conditions play a key role in determining if a planet can sustain liquid ...

"Makemake is one of the largest and brightest icy worlds beyond Neptune, and its surface is dominated by frozen methane," ...

The world's greatest space telescopes have all been round. Now, a new rectangular design could turbocharge our search for ...

Recently, scientists made a jaw-dropping discovery: the water vapor in the atmospheres of exoplanets resembles the tiny dew ...

Moroccan astrophysicist Meriem El Yajouri has officially joined NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore ...

But over the summer, 3I/ATLAS, has plunged toward the inner solar system—and the fireworks show has begun in earnest. When ...

New research from NASA has found that the dwarf planet Ceres may be another place to look for evidence of primitive life in our solar system.

Mathematicians calculated where the planet might be based on its effects on Uranus, and astronomers searched for less than an ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming discs around young stars could become the seeds ...

The dwarf planet Pluto and its five known natural satellites (Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra) may be frigid, but ...